FANTASTIC FOUR #570
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If anyone was born to write/draw The Fantastic Four, and Reed Richards, it’s Jonathan Hickman. His visual style, his thoroughly researched stories, his command of language. This is quite possibly the best mainstream title he could ever be attached to. And, yet, this issue is just…good. It’s a run of the mill Fantastic Four story with the tried and true structure of starting wtih a flashback and then relating it to the present. It’s a narrative device that works, but seems a little too easy for Hickman. I also enjoy the art switch from flashback to current story, but, again, it’s easy.
I would love to see an issue where Marvel let Hickman use his signature visual aesthetic to tell a F4 story in a way that we haven’t seen before. I had my fingers crossed so hard for it that I’ve dislocated my wrist. But this comic isn’t it at all. It’s very run of the treadmill.
Art: 3 - Good
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I agree with you on all those points. Good review, are you going to stick around or drop it?
@SummerSleep: Working in a store, I don’t have to throw down money for individual issues. Thus, I tend to read comics after the point where I would have dropped them, if a money exchange was involved. So, yea, I’ll give theic another issue or two. But only because it’s free.
Good review and I agree that this was average. It had it good points and this is just a first issue of a run so I’ll stick around to see what happens. I think it will improve and Hickman’s DR mini is proof of that. I had a problem with the art. Here is a clearcut case where a great artist and their style just doesn’t fit the title. Hell Reed with muscles and a beard looked like Macho Man Randy Savage.